Google is working on getting better and Google’s take on “Not Provided” is that we only want to respect the privacy of the user and protect the user.

But as Greg Boser rightly pointed …” what blows me off is that retargeting is considered cool but organic search data is not.” as advertisers continue to get the keyword data.

About Going Mobile

Mobile is the next big thing. Hence, go mobile.

By end of 2013 there’ll be more mobile devices than people.

The conversion rate of smartphone vs. desktop is .3x vs. 1x. The challenge for marketers, then, is understanding how conversions work.

Have a direct connect with your audience across all devices. Do responsive design and also offer an App.

About Structured Data , Entity Search And Authorship Markup

Entity search is about understanding the meaning of the search query and goes beyond just mapping word to word for giving search results.

Search is heading to authorship and semantics.

HTML was made to determine how a page looks and not for what it means.

The semantic web has a Data Tier, Logic Tier and the Display Tier.

Implement Twitter Cards and Open Graph on websites.

Authorship Markup is one of the main pillars of the semantic search era.

90% of the data on the web has been created in the last 2 years.

Authorship Markup connects the web searchers with the author.

Authorship should be used on pages which have articles and insights about a certain topic .

If you have multiple authors listed for an article only one author pic. Will be displayed in SERPs as Google’s search UI currently does not support multiple authorship.

Authorship needs to be verified via an email on the domain or by linking to the Google+ profile of the author.

Under the contributor links of Google+ link to sites and blogs not to individual pages.

Author byline is another important authorship indicator.

Regarding the distinction for the author and publisher rel=author is for the person and rel=publisher is for the organization.

Have rel=author, rel=publisher and organization markup should implemented on the relevant pages.

Danny Sullivan’s take on Hummingbird(the latest algorithmic update).. Hummingbird is all about tying together entities and bringing entity search to the next level. It isn’t a “we don’t use links anymore” algorithm, it’s more of a “we’re still looking at all these signals, but we’re also looking at more streamlined, refined signals” .

Stop worrying about how search algorithms are changing and focus attention on how user behaviour is changing. Searchers are getting smart and kids are way over facebook.

According to Duane Forrester of Bing the future search is like … Someone has an iPad, they look at a picture of the Empire State Building, they tap the picture – the speak and ask “what can I drink there?”

Search engines need to make connections, understand gestures, context and demand and Entity Search is headed in that direction. So, its not about Bing v/s Google or Google v/s Bing. Often both engines have to be solving for the same problems, so whatever path they follow the destination is the same… “ To meet the demand of the user”.

According to Greg Boser, building quality content for your audience and multiplying that audience by good social strategy is the key. If you have an audience then you have links too. Audience is everything. Leverage mobile , do responsive design and also offer an App. This connects you directly to your audience. In order to survive its not only about the white box (Google). According to Danny Sullivan a Search Marketer is a person who keeps working on trying to understand how the information is being searched.

SEO in 2014 is very much here to stay and by no means is SEO dead but it is all about Content, Context, Connections and Correlation Search marketers need to move away from keywords, rankings and links. If you mange SEO in-house then Distribute SEO tasks , create an SEO education plan and expand SEO beyond the SEO team as Social media is not 100% of one person’s job but its 1% of everyones job.

About The Author

Founder of WebPro Technologies a Web solutions company based in India which focuses on building quality web presence for businesses. Bharati Ahuja is a SEO Trainer and speaker, Web Entrepreneur, Blog Writer, Internet Marketing Consultant.

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